Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

Day went well to start with, with a full 4 lap Supersport race, won by an Italian bike. 🕺
However, the unsettled weather then intervened again and caused the scrapping of the second side car race. Looking at the first photo you may wonder why, but the second gives a better clue.
Reports of hail on parts of the course added to the decision to wait for another day, although 40 years ago we just carried on regardless of the ‘marbles’ all over the road.
 

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Andy J said:
Day went well to start with, with a full 4 lap Supersport race, won by an Italian bike. 🕺
However, the unsettled weather then intervened again and caused the scrapping of the second side car race. Looking at the first photo you may wonder why, but the second gives a better clue.
Reports of hail on parts of the course added to the decision to wait for another day, although 40 years ago we just carried on regardless of the ‘marbles’ all over the road.
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Back in the mid eighties I remember a horrendously wet ( pissing down) race and Joey did consistent 115 mph laps with a slick rear! Different times - I think not racing in the wet can only help the safety record and not bring the bad press we had in the 80’s. Quite what they will do if they have a week of rain I don’t know..Fans are only getting to see the bike do two laps is pretty lame. Bring back early morning practice I say !
My hotelier hated it when I asked for kippers and toast at 5 am 😂 - for me it was the best bit….and the wet tee shirts at the lido !
 
If that's the Bowen Launch site of our only Oz Rocket. I have been waiting for a couple of months to hear about that launch. At one stage, the failed pre-release of its nose cone fairing, which went open on the launch pad, was attributed to Cockatoos, large white birds pecking at it. Apparently, it wasn't THE BIRDS. Anyway, hope it goes successfully soon. Be great to see it go in person. Louder than the F35 that flew over Sydney Harbour yesterday for Chalies' Birthday Holiday. Love the LOUD.
 
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Weather looks terrible, Peter ... couldn't launch in that! :ROFLMAO:
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Ha ha, don't worry about the weather, pretty hard to launch when part of your nose cone falls off during pre checks!! :eek:
Rumours abounded that a possum got in and did some damage but pretty sure that's just idle chatter & gossip:ROFLMAO: Wouldn't really know what's going on, just gotta wait for a new nose section from the Gold Coast, then start the process again........ (a lot of money has been sunk into this!)
 
Another, just short of 100km, early morning little tour with my youngest.
Apparently the local police in Nowhere, Emptyvillage were out and about as well... Got pulled over on a road similar to this one (you can see how busy it is :D ) -they weren't very busy as well apparently, and after a friendly chat about the bike, it's history and how nice it is to tour around with my so, got a stern warning not to use my right leg for direction indication when leaving roundabouts, and the 2nd part of the road I was stopped on was apparently changed from 80km to 60km. Oops... My own fault of course, but I got off with a warning and a useful tip to accelerate a bit on the left leaning part of the roundabout, engage the clutch when swinging over, and using your right hand to indicate direction, then release/throttle up. One of the policemen was a somewhat older gentleman, I could not help notice he had some experience with that, he rode as well. ;)
A bit wonky at first but I guess I was just too used to using my leg... After trying it works a bit smoother and oncoming traffic gets the intention better. :)
Got home just before midday as the whole BMW GS and H-D loud-pipes-save-lives crowds went out and about too.outandabout2.jpg
 
Sunday was supposed to be a contingency day in the event the Senior TT couldn’t be run on the Saturday, which as we know was cancelled because of gusty winds. Needless to say the weather was more than good enough on Sunday for racing, with pretty well dry roads throughout the island from Port St Mary in the south to the Point of Ayre at the very north of the island. 🤬
 

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Andy J said:
Sunday was supposed to be a contingency day in the event the Senior TT couldn’t be run on the Saturday, which as we know was cancelled because of gusty winds. Needless to say the weather was more than good enough on Sunday for racing, with pretty well dry roads throughout the island from Port St Mary in the south to the Point of Ayre at the very north of the island. 🤬
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Don’t know what you thought but I got the feeling they were going through the motions of postponing the Senior knowing full well the weather was in fact getting worse and it was never going to be a 7.30pm start. I did hear they asked for Marshall’s to come forward for Sunday but all a bit half hearted.
Still, no fatalities and mostly safe racing which has got to be a good thing.
 
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